"Fam" Showrunner Let Go From CBS Series over Inappropriate Language on Set

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"Fam" Showrunner Bob Kushell Let Go from CBS Series over Inappropriate Language
by Nellie Andreeva
November 5, 2018


Bob Kushell, executive producer/showrunner of CBS’ upcoming midseason comedy "Fam" starring Nina Dobrev, has exited the series. I hear he was dismissed following a complaint that he had used insensitive language in the writers room.

Word is that the comment in question was not of a sexual harassment nature, but it was deemed inappropriate.




With CBS under scrutiny in the past few months with a number of high-profile exits over misconduct allegations, from CEO Les Moonves to former "NCIS: New Orleans" showrunner Brad Kern, the network acted decisively, removing Kushell.

CBS declined comment.




The move comes with three episodes left to film in "Fam‘s" 13-episode order. Creator/executive producer Corinne Kingsbury is taking lead, with comedy veterans Joe Port and Joe Wiseman getting elevated to executive producers.

In "Fam", from Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios, a young woman’s dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.

https://deadline.com/2018/11/fam-sho...ev-1202496400/